Four days prior to the official discharge of their 14th studio album, “Beauty Queen Sister,” the Indigo Women will debut selections in the project Saturday night because they headline Party at Ponce, the start for that planned multi-billion dollar Ponce City Market renovation from the massive City Hall East location and former Sears & Roebuck building on Ponce de Leon Avenue. The night works as a benefit for that city’s Atlanta Beltline Partnership and Georgia Organics. And when we’re really lucky, Indigo Girl Amy Ray might take happens in a set of eco-friendly Toughskins jeans, her preferred hue from childhood. Additionally towards the popular make of Sears jungle gym-proof jeans, Ray’s mother labored there like a teen and also the songwriter’s initial electric guitar and amp also originated from Sears. “It’s this type of great building,” she recalls. “My Father accustomed to take me there to get our catalog orders. Every Christmas, we’ve got our Sears Wishbook in the room! Which was an very problem at that time. I’ve got a real emotional attachment to that particular building. We’re happy to take part in this benefit.”

For “Beauty Queen Sister,” Ray and longtime musical partner Emily Saliers labored once more with producer Peter Collins (who also twisted the knobs on their own acclaimed albums “Rites of Passage” and “Swamp Ophelia), this time around in Nashville, to produce the album’s 13 songs. Ray states the song, “War Rugs” was inspired with this year’s social networking-fueled revolution in Egypt. “That song came into being, with some other songs this season, after Peter and that i took in as to the I’d written earlier so we made the decision the tunes just weren’t adequate,Inches explains Ray. “I authored ‘War Rugs’ as soon as the uprising was happening, although it was on television. I couldn’t accept is as true was happening. Watching Egyptian youth literally take their lives at risk was an incredible factor to look at. I really like everything about revolution, social networking style. It had been about achieving their independence and taking advantage of Twitter to get it done. I needed to pay for tribute to that particular inside a non-bias way.” While Ray and Saliers routinely make use of the Indigo Women social networking pages on Facebook to aid their activism in a variety of social causes, you will not catch Ray posting navel-looking information regarding her existence, like another celebs. “I’m not the one who posts, ‘Today I’m eating oatmeal in the morning,’” Ray states laughing. “I don’t mind about this stuff. But I know those who follow us sometimes ask, ‘Why could they be always posting about activism?!’”

Ray recounts the album’s rocking title track also arrived late within the songwriting process for “Beauty Queen Sister.” “I was inspired with a friend who had been being a tattoo artist,” recalls Ray. “She was speaking about her existence and that i wound up conflating it with [author S.E. Hinton‘s classic transitional phase novel] ‘The Outsiders.’ After which, I had been doing a bit of vocals with Brandi Carlile and the other songwriter Lindsay Larger so we were speaking about our brothers and sisters. And Lindsay just announced ‘Oh, everyone’s had a beauty queen sister!’ I finished up calling her back and saying, ‘Hey, would you mind when we use that for the album title?’” Atlanta vocal group The Shadowboxers, meanwhile, lead gorgeous harmonies around the Saliers-penned love song, “We Reach Feel Everything.Inches Because of an intro by Saliers, longtime Indigo Women manager Russell Carter now manages The Shadowboxers too. “Emily wound up meeting individuals guys in a Seder,” Ray states. “One from the guys was singing round the table plus they wound up in another room with guitars afterwards, buying and selling songs. Before we understood it, i was having fun with them in a gig at Emory College where all of us finished. We thought they’d work best with that song so that they emerged to Nashville so we stated, ‘Hey, while you’re here, can you mind adding to ‘Beauty Queen Sister’ too?’ That’s the way we operate. We obtain you in to the studio for just one factor after which request you to perform a million other activities too!”

Saliers’ vocals, meanwhile, rattle the rafters on “Birthday Song” around the new album. So, does Ray ever go slackjawed and stare at Saliers within the studio when she hits individuals high notes? ‘Yeah, I actually do,Inches she enables laughing. “When she first sang that song in my experience, I had been like ‘Are you kidding?! I had no clue you can sing that top. That’s ambitious!’ I recall saying, ‘You know we’re going to need to sing this live eventually, right?’ But she authored it not to mention just nailed it. That song is really beautiful. Initially when i first heard it, I did not realize the outcome it would have. Many of the musicians who performed around the the record really reacted into it inside a positive way. It’s so intimate which i was scared because of it initially. I recall thinking, ‘I really wish i could do this for somebody Personally i think special about.’ I simply love everything about this.Inches

It’s that mutual admiration that’s stored the Atlanta duo intact and growing creatively in the last twenty five years. “Space and respect would be the a couple of things,Inches Ray reflects. “You need to give one another space to become creative and you’ve got to respect another person’s decisions. Both of us know how important it will be challenged creatively with different musicians as well as on different projects. That’s how Emily and that i usually have contacted things. We trust one another so we trust the procedure. Another big factor is the fact that Russell [Carter] has managed us because we were 23 years of age. We’ve had exactly the same booking agent all along. It’s a household. You grow together and remain grounded together. Our audience can also be so incredibly loyal, like [Mary] Chapin‘s [Carpenter] and Melissa Etheridge‘s. I was all lucky enough to get arrive at any given time when artists remained as being developed at record labels. It had been about creating a community. Fortunately for all of us, it’s all stuck.”

The Indigo Women with headline Party at Ponce Saturday night at 9:50 p.m., preceded by Shawn Mullins at 8:45 p.m. and Francine Reed at 8 p.m. Incorporated within the $90 benefit ticket cost? Food offered up by by a few of the city’s finest chefs, including Kevin Rathbun, Anne Quatrano, Rob Doty, Jay Quick, Hugh Acheson, Ford Fry, Duane Nutter, John Johnson, Joe Truex, Joshua Hopkins, Ron Eyester, Scott Serpas, Pano Karatassos and Frederico Castellucci. Tickets can be found in advance online or in the door Saturday night.